Textareas and Variable

[quozt]

<p>Desc:<br /> <textarea name="content" cols="100" rows="20"><?echo $textarea;?></textarea></p>

is what i have but all it displays is <?echo $textarea;?> ive tryed $textarea and other code... any ideas what i can use

[coopster]

It seems as though the file is not parsing the PHP. Try renaming the file with a .php extension first to see if your PHP parser is working.

[quozt]

the file is named as php

[Timotheos]

Hmmm it works for me.

<? $textarea = "test";?>
<p>Desc:<br /> <textarea cols="100" rows="20" name="content"><?echo $textarea;?></textarea></p>

Does your php set up allow for the short tag (<? vs <?php)?
Is there anything else before this that is not closed properly? Look at the source. Maybe check it in an html validator?

[quozt]

no

       print '<form action="teachers.php" method="post">
                <p>Directory: <input type="text" name="link" size="40" maxsize="100" value="' . $row['link'] . '"/></p>
<? $textarea = "test";?> 
<p>Desc:<br /> <textarea cols="100" rows="20" name="content"><?echo $textarea;?></textarea></p> 
                <input type="hidden" name="id" value="' . $_GET['id'] . '" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Update this Entry!" />
                </form>';

[jatar_k]

you seem to have

<? $textarea = "test";?> and <?echo $textarea;?>

inside your actual print statement

try this chunk, I removed the print statement all together

<form action="teachers.php" method="post">
<p>Directory: <input type="text" name="link" size="40" maxsize="100" value="<?php echo $row['link'];?>"/></p>
<p>Desc:<br /> <textarea cols="100" rows="20" name="content"><?php echo $textarea;?></textarea></p>
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="<?php echo $_GET['id'];?>" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Update this Entry!" />
</form>

you may have to drop out of php parsing to make this work.

precede it with a?> if so

[quozt]

thanks that worked :) this forum is a real help to me you should all be proud of ur self

[quozt]

ok 1 more question

$dir = $row['link'];
$textarea = file_get_contents("../../subjects/$dir/$filename.htm");

any idea why this doesnt get the directory from my database

[Timotheos]

Ah ha the bigger picture reveals the problem. When you use single quotes around the string to print (or echo) then it is not parsed for variables. If you used double quotes then it would have worked but you would then have to escape any double quotes in the html tags. Best to do it jatar_k's way... as usual ;-)

[jatar_k]

I would need to know where $row['link'] and $filename came from

have you tried testing the values to see what actually ends up in the vars?

$dir = $row['link'];
$mypath = "../../subjects/" . $dir . "/" . $filename . ".htm";
echo $mypath;
$textarea = file_get_contents($mypath);

I did that the concat way for mo reason in particular. Is that path correct?

You are looking for a file 2 dirs above the one you are in, then into the subjects dir and then into a dir to be determined and then there's the file?

That path won't port to other dirs at all, it will break or will need to be hard coded.

[quozt]

$dir = $row['link'];
$textarea = file_get_contents("../../subjects/".$dir."/".$filename.".htm");

ive changed it to that..shouldnt that work

[jatar_k]

that's not what i posted though

try echo'ing the contents of the variables to see if they have the proper values stored in them.

[quozt]

k i figured it out i had $row = mysql_fetch_array ($r); in the wrong placve